-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
The Challenge:
understanding what Symbols represent in reality
& governing your life accordingly.
The Problem:
believing that Symbols don't represent
persons, places, situations & things
directly associate with realities important to your life.
The Trouble:
taking the Symbols for something that can be dismissed
because they are for you merely maps & not the territories.
Such foolishness occurs endlessly
& the fall out is devastating
for everyone this behavior touches.
-------------- REPRESENT? --------------
What Symbols
Hidden In Plain Sight
Within All Open Lodges
Represent Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth
For All Brothers to See?
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
-------------- ALLEGORY--------------
So much of
provided Masonic literature
is gruel
- it fills one up
but it lacks
substance & significance.
I want literature that is
salutary to my Masonic needs
-- The kind that brings me up,
Strengthens my immune system,
Gives me energy,
Fortifies my bones,
Clears my thinking,
Builds my endurance,
Opens my heart
& lifts my spirit.
Don't shove at me
the same old gruel;
I've done nothing to deserve it,
least I accept it without objection
& hence deserve nothing less.
-------------- SHARE IT --------------
LIVE IT!
-------------- TRAVEL --------------
We indeed Travel
not for its End
but for What it does For us
by Doing so.
-------------- LIP SERVICE --------------
When You Want to Attract
Good Men to The Craft,
You Must Yourself Be Attractive.
Lip Service Alone Is Unattractive.
-------------- LABOR --------------
What doeth
your Labors Wrought?
-------------- MYTH --------------
"Living myths are not mistaken notions,
and they do not spring from books.
They are not to be judged as true or false
but as effective or ineffective,
maturative or pathogenic. . .
They are not invented but occur,
and are recognized by seers and poets,
to be then cultivated
and employed as catalysts
of spiritual (i.e., psychological) well being."
-- Joseph Campbell,
"The Flight of the Wild Gander"
Amen!
Hiram Abiff and the Chamber of Secrets
at a lodge near you
(Have you visited the chamber?)
at a lodge near you
(Have you visited the chamber?)
-------------- DROP --------------
When you dropped it,
You Demonstrated
your Love for the Craft
or your Hate in your Heart.
-------------- SURROUND YOURSELF --------------
-------------- EACH GENERATION --------------
"Each generation deals with its own manifestations
of age-old mob frenzies, bullying and public shaming.
Salem, Mass., had its witch trials in the 1690s.
The 1950s endured its McCarthyism.
And we now are enduring our 'cancel culture.'”
— Victor Davis Hanson
(Hat tip to Bro. Garry Paxinos!)
-------------- RURAL --------------
You know you're in a rural Lodge
when the Tyler tries to keep off
cow-hands and leaf-droppers. 
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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